Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-10-27
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

MISS GERTRUDE HALL, daughter of
Ex-Governor Hall, of New Hampshire,
has accepted the principalship of the
Monsoon Academy, Monson, Mass,
Mrs. CUMMINGS, of Woburn, Mass,
who gave handsome library building
to the two towns of Tilton and North
field, N H.. has added to her gift a
library of eight hundred volumes.
Mrs. ADA M. RITTENBENDER was
by the Nebraska Prohibi-
ton convection as their candidate for
district Judge. Mrs. Rittenbender is a
member of the Lincoln bar, and much
esteemed.
Mrs G. L. RODDEY is the inventor
of many devices used in kindergarten
work. just now she is superintend-
ing the manufacture, at Springfield,
of five hundred models of q kinder
garten slate.
EMILY S. BoUToN, in her "House-
hold Column" of the Toledo Blade, is
doing excellent service for women.
She gives valuable suggestions and adj
vice for the material needs of women,
which deserve to be preserved in book
form.
The higher education of women is
not lessening their fitness to be moth
ers of the next generation; it is fur
nishing the mothers of the race to be.
with the education and culture which
will maze the training of the genera
ton worthy of its origin. - Herald
Miss JOSEPHINE POLLARD has as
sisted John H. Vincent, of Chautau-
qua, in compiling large and striking
quarto volume, entitled 1.-The Home
Book" designed as home library
"for very little people, their brothers
and sisters, their mothers and teach
ers."
Miss HENRIETTA BROOKE DAVIS, in
the Nineteenth Century, advises the es-
Enlistment, by women, of college in
which the duties of the household, the
art of cooking, ETC., may be taught.
The great advantage of this will be
that it will raise the standard of domes-
tic service.
Mrs. Polly FORD, of Milford. near
New Haven, was one hundred years
old on September 1. She has not been
to church since 1896, but is member
of the Congregational denomination.
When in her eighty-third year she re-
ceived her second sight, and can see
better than many at sixty years of
age.
ARE we an unhealthy nationP There
are more than three times as many
physicians in America as in France,
proportionately. What would become
of this army of doctors if American
women were to dress properly and ex-
ercise IN the open air regularity
Eliza Putnam Heaton, IN Brooklyn
Times.
DR.. ELIZABETH BEATTY, of Indore,
sent out by the Presbyterian church in
Canada as medical missionary. has
treated over six thousand patients in
the past twelve months, and thinks a
hospital and training-school for Hin
doc women would make thousands of
converts to Christianity. - WomdnS
| journal.
Miss CHARLOTTE MORRILL,, who has
been spoken of as a possible successor
to Miss Freeman as president of
Wellesley, is secretary of the Adelphi
Academy, of Brooklyn. She is fine
looking woman, with clear, healthy
complexion, bright eyes and dark hair,
She has quick smile, is brilliant
talker, is the personitication of COM
nonsense and goodwill, and has been
actively engaged in educational work
for years.
Mrs. FAIRBANKS addressed the Con-
ference of Charities and Corrections at
its session in Omaha, Neb., August
20, on the subject of work among
children. She presented paper by
Mrs. T. H. Pierce, at Davenport, Ia,
emphasizing the value of kindness
with children, especially young girls,
and, above all, working-girls. Mrs.
Lizzie Gorgas, matron of the Child S
Home at Defiance, o., read paper on
the location of institutions for the care
of children. and Mrs. Virginia S.
Smith, of Connecticut, spoke of the
economy OF the State in the care of de-
pendent children.
Mrs. GOVERNOR CLAFLIN, for the
purpose of saving influence on the
children who roamed near her home,
has organized them into a Loyal
League. to be differed by the young
people themselves. The members al
sign pledge to use no oaths or vul.
gar language; neither alcoholic liquor:
nor tobacco, and to seek to perform a.
many acts of kindness as possible. A
fine playground on the premises is ar
ranged for them. At their meetings
which are quite frequent, all the for
malities of a well-conducted club ar,
scrupulously attended to-of itself al
invaluable discipline for the children.
Any breaches of the pledge are thei
considered, the lads themselves pro
posing a fine in such cases, and tn
, members are called upon to mention
any acts of thoughtfulness or kindnes
that they have performed for other
, since the previous meeting. The re
: suit already appears in the subsidenc
, of the use Of oaths and tobacco, and i
the increased respect for the amenitie
, of life. Mrs. Clafiin invited these chi
dren to her own beautiful home. an
: thus gave them an idea of bette
) home life than they had known. Th
| example is an excellent one, worthy {